Well, here we are the final post! This is where I will detail my final thoughts and conclusions, in a sense, as to what VAR means to football and whether it will ultimately benefit or destroy our beautiful game.
After contemplating hard over VAR looking at the major pros and cons, how it would affect Scottish football and even how similar technology has been used in other sports, I can say that my overall consensus is that VAR will benefit football in the long run.
I think VAR, however, still requires key adjustments and fine tuning. In particular, how long decisions can take to make. Key matches where the game is end-to-end can be disrupted for several minutes, which is so infuriating and can seriously affect the nature of the match.
That being said it has the potential to vastly improve the game. As previous posts have covered, there is evidence to point it to it working. Notably, how well it works in other sports like Rugby because of how well they have adapted it over the years of having it in operation..
Not only this, it does ultimately help to eliminate human error from the game, which over the years has been so costly in vital matches across the world. In turn, it takes some of the pressure away from the referee and allows them a second chance almost to review their decision and change it if need be.
Therefore, after all the discussion I'll go on record to say I believe that VAR can be a good thing for football and the final decision is that it should stay.
Cheers, Leon.
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